Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror by Shane Hawk

19 reviews

eficca33's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"Orange" and "Soilborn" were both flash fiction and the ending GOT ME!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Addiction, Car accident, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, and Classism

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Drug use

jessereadsthings's review

dark tense fast-paced

2.0

Some really interesting ideas for short stories that were either a bit too short to be effective or started really good but did not nail the ending. Which led to this collection being just okay overall. However, this is definitely an author I want to read more from in the future. Especially, since certain parts of the author’s writing really hit for me at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Drug abuse, Body horror, Racism, Animal death, Gore, Racial slurs, and Suicide

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Blood and Animal death

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Violence, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

aubzilla's review

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Body horror, Murder, Child death, Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Blood, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

booktribe's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.5

• Soilborne: ⭐️⭐️✨
• Wounded: ⭐️⭐️✨ (TW: death of a child, alcoholism, addiction, sexual assault mentioned, attempted suicide mentioned)
• Orange: ⭐️ (TW: racism)
• Imitate: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Dead America: DNF (I don’t do spiders lol)
• Transfigured: ⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide attempt and Sexual assault

notthatlibrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

krys_kilz's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.0

I do not read a lot of horror, so I don't have much to compare this collection to. I did find a lot of the stories creepy and unsettling, but they lacked any real punch that would make me gasp or check under my bed before going to sleep.

This collection also claimed to be firmly rooted in place/history, but I really did not get that from reading it. It could have been set almost anywhere, which felt disappointing to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual assault

mmccombs's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

2.0

I’m really sad but this collection did nothing for me. I found the writing to be ineffective and a bit forced, and the stories lacked depth and punch. There were some really unnerving/gross/creepy ideas (yuck, spiders! Ah, creepy copy of your kid!) that I think could have worked with a bit more finesse. I also wished that the idea of place was explored a bit more, the intro made me thing that each story was intrinsically linked with Anoka as a town, but in reading the stories they really could have been happening anywhere had the town name not been mentioned. I didn’t see the “history” the author was talking about really until reading his notes afterwards. I think had the collection been more grounded in place/in history, this would have been more successful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Murder, and Vomit

bumblebeefarts's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Sexual assault